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    WATCH: Eric Swalwell Embarrasses Himself On Live TV While Trying to Corner Kristi Noem

    By Will TannerMay 16, 2025
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    Things got very funny when Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) tried cornering Kristi Noem, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, during a heated exchange during a televised committee hearing, and ended up just embarrassing himself by showing his total ignorance of what he was speaking about.

    Their fight, which occurred during a Homeland Security budget hearing on Wednesday, May 14, revolved around “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and El Salvadorian citizen who was deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison for his alleged ties to the violent gang MS-13, That deportation came after the Trump Administration labelled that gang a terror organization and invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport those associated with it. Democrats have since lost their minds over the matter, claiming Garcia was wrongly deported despite much evidence to the contrary.

    At particular issue was a photo showing what the Trump Administration has alleged to be MS-13 tattoos on Garcia’s hand. The tattoos were allegedly a collection of symbols for the gang’s name, and so the Trump Administration labeled what each of the symbols was, leading to Democrats like Swalwell claiming the photo was doctored. In reality, it was simply labeled.

    Pressing Secretary Noem on that by insisting that the “M,” “S,” “1,” and “3” labels over each symbol on Garcia’s tattooed fingers was “doctoring” of a photo of his hand, the foolish and ignorant Democrat rep said, “I want you to have credibility and I want you to be taken seriously. Is this doctored or is it not?”

    Secretary Noem tried responding, but instead of letting her answer, Swalwell alleged that she was lying and that he could tell because he has young children, snapping, “Madam Secretary, I have a seven-year-old, a six-year-old and a three-year-old. I have a bulls— detector. I’m just asking you, is this doctored or not?”



    Pressing her on the photo, he asked, “My question is—the numbers and the letters: MS-13—can you look at the photo, please.” Noem fired back, rattling off the various evidence against Garcia that DHS has compiled, “Are you saying Abrego Garcia is not a wife beater? Is not a criminal? Is not a human trafficker?”

    Swalwell, continuing to rant about the picture, snapped, “It’s so telling that you won’t look at the photo. Can you look to the right at the photo in front of you?” Noem noted that she had already seen it, as it was on display in the chamber, saying, “I have seen this photo as you held it behind you.”

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    Rep. Swalwell snapped, making himself ridiculous by claiming the labeling made the picture “doctored,” “The letters M-S and the numbers 13, are those doctored or not?” Noem snapped, “You don’t want to talk about the facts? The importance of our national security?” Insisting on his absurd point, Swalwell said, “Madame Secretary, this is not a hard question. Are those doctored or not? Is that actually on his hand or not?”

    Noem shot back that Swalwell’s line of questioning about the photo labeling was was “unbelievable,” leading to him ranting, “OK, so it’s been hanging out [on Trump’s Truth Social page] for four weeks. You are one of the chief law enforcement officials in the country. What have you done to investigate whether the president misrepresented the reason that this person has been detained? Have you done anything to try and figure out whether that was doctored or not?”

    Watch them here:

    Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video





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